Arrest de la Chambre du domaine, portant confiscation des biens du sieur Duc de Rohannes, & reunion dudit duché & marquisat au domaine de Sa Majesté
A 1631 Paris printed decree from the Chambre du domaine, printed by Pierre Mettayer, ordering the confiscation of the Duke of Rohan's estates and their reunion with the royal domain, now held by the Boston Public Library. The two pictures are printer's and library ownership emblems: a black-and-white shield of French lilies beside a chained-lattice device inside a dense wreath, and an engraved Boston Public Library seal with classical figures, an open book, a laurel wreath and the dates 1852-1878. A designer could draw on the contrast between a dense, heavy woodcut border and a light, orderly engraved laurel frame.
